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POCKET FOB GABMENTS.

(Application filed Feb. 25, 1897.)

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llr rrnn STATES Ferns-r- @FFiE@ MAX L. HOLTZ, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK,'ASSIGNOR TO LOUIS l-IOLTZ d5.

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POCKET FOR GARMENTS.

SPECEFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,37 5, dated August2, 1898.

Application filed February 25, 1897- $erial No. 625,029. (No model.)

To all whom it. may concern:

Beit known that LMAX L. HOLTZ, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe andState of New York, have invented. certain new and useful Improvements inPockets for Garments and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part .of this specification, and to thereference-numerals marked thereon. I

My present invention relates to an improved pocket for garments, andparticularly those adapted for coats Worn by street-car conductors orothers required to carry heavy articles,

such as metallic money, and to which it is necessary to have frequentaccess, as in making change; and it has for its object to improve theconstruction whereby not only the pocket itself, preferably composed ofheavy strong material, such as leather, may be firmly attached to thecoat, but the binding at the edges of the pocket may be so strengthenedand constructed thatthe wear at the mouth of the pocket is materiallydecreased and the pocket prevented from being torn from the garment bythe weight of its contents; and to these and other ends the inventionconsists in certain improvements hereinafter fully de scribed, the novelfeatures being pointed out in the claims at the end of thisspecification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view through a portionof the pocket and the garment to which it is attached; Fig. 2, ahorizontal sectional view on the line as a: of Fig. 1.

Similar reference=numerals in the two figures indicate similar parts.

1 indicates the material of the garment to which my invention isapplied, being preferably the side of a coat, which is shown as unlined.

2 indicates a reinforce on the outside, preferably of the same materialas the garment, through which and the material'of the gar-- ment isformed the aperture for the pocket, said reinforce being secured to thegarment by lines of stitching 3,which also pass through a facing i onthe rear side, composed of can vas, heavy linen, or other material.

5 indicates the pocket or sack, composed of a single piece of leather orsimilar strong ma terial sewed together at the edges, as usual, andhaving the lower'edge of the mouth socured by lines of stitching 6 tothe lower inturned edge of a binding-piece 7, preferably of leather andconstituting the lower edge of the mouth of the pocket. This binding 7is composed of a single piece of leather having one edge secured to thereinforce 2 and the facing by lines of stitching 8, then bent overthrough the aperture in the garment and secured by lines of stitching 9,which pass through the doubled portion of the binding and the doublededges of the parts 1, 2, and 4, thereby forming not only a securefastenin g with the garment, but a hard edge, which is more or lessinelastic, preventing sagging of the mouth of the pocket and tending tokeep said pocket closed. I The upper portion of the aperture or mouth ofthe pocket is covered with'a binding-piece 10, also of leather, havingits inturned edge secured by stitches 11, passing through the parts 2and 4, and its edge is then inserted through the pocket-aperture, turnedupward, and secured to the garment and to the upper edge of the pocketor sack 5 by lines of stitchin g 12, passing through the superposedparts,

as shown in Fig. 1. This construction not only forms a hard rigid edgefor the pocketaperture,but.secures the parts firmly.

The manner of connecting the parts at the ends of the pocket is shownmore particularly in Fig. 2, the facing and the top of the sack 5 beingsecuredby lines of stitching 13 at the extreme edges of said sack, and aline of stitchin g 1t being passed through the doubled edge of thereinforce 2, the edges of the bind= ing 10, and the rear upper edge ofthe sack or pocket 5. This construction I find in practice is admirablyadapted for the pui'pose, as

it forms a firm connection between the garment and the pocket orsack'and produces an article admirably adapted for the purpose 9 5intended, besides being cheap in construction and presenting a neatappearance.

I claim as my invention-- l. The combination with a garment having thepocket-aperture, of the pocket, the hind mo ing-strip 7 of heavymaterial as leather socured to the inner side of the lower edge of thepocket extending through the aperture in the garment and having its edgedoubled under and secured to the faee of the garment, the upper binding10 secured to the upper edge ot the pocket, extending through theaperture and having its edge doubled under and secured to the face ofthe garment, substantially as deserihed.

2. The combinat ion with a garment having the pocket aperture and thereinforce 2 around it, of the pocket, the binding-strips 7 and 10 havingthe doubled portions on the exterior extending over he edges of theaperture, stitching l3 eonueeting the edge of the pocket with thebinding, and other lines of stitching, as 1; and i), passing through theupper and lower binding-strips respectively and the edge of the garmentand the pocket substantially as described.

31. The combination with the garment having the aperture and thereinforce, of the leather pocket 5, the bindings 7 and 10 (JOY- eringthe edges of the aperture on the garment, the inner edges folded andstitched at 8 and l], the lower binding being stitched to the pocket atU, (3 and through the garment at 9, f), and the upper binding pocket andgarment being stitched together at 12, substantially as described.

-l A garment provided with a pocket-opening, a poeket and areinforce,the latter being seeured to the upper and lower edges of the pocket andextending through the said opening in the garment and having its edgesdoubled under and secured to the face of the garment adjacent to theedges of the opening.

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